CRAZY! A ticket to go visit Vickie in Nashville from Oakland is $100 one way! SO CHEAP
$25 tickets less than 374 miles
$50 tickets between 375-549 miles
$75 tickets between 550-999 miles
$100 tickets between 1000+ miles
Dec. 2nd – Dec. 16
Jan. 5th – Feb. 10
I am back from the East Coast! I also laboriously typed up a food picture post using the wordpress iPhone app, but it deleted it! My thumbs were sooo pissed off at the application.
Let me tell you about the start of my trip, as it was a hectic one.
So I left for NYC on Wednesday morning at 7am and I purposely didn’t check my bag in because I knew that our flight was going to be making a few stops (Oakland to Kansas City to Baltimore then to La Guardia) and I didn’t want it to get lost in all the shuffle. I took it on the plane and put it in the overhead bin. When I got off in La Guardia at around 6:30pm, I looked for my luggage and it was GONE! A Southwest attendant came onto the plane and told me that someone had taken my bag on accident and gotten off in Baltimore. He then told me that they were going to send my bag on the earliest flight back to La Guardia and for me to check with the baggage desk at baggage claim so that they will have my contact information.
When I went down to talk to the man at the counter, he seemed confused and took down my information and said that he would “investigate” the matter and give me a call later that night. All my clothes (including my heavy jacket) were in the suitcase and not to mention I was going to be on the East Coast for 5 days so I kind of wanted some clean things to change into. I didn’t hear back from the airport that night so I phoned Southwest and they were nice and emailed/called La Guardia (no answer from La Guardia) but they also told me that since it wasn’t checked they can’t really track it and aren’t as responsible for it than they would be for checked bags. The woman that I spoke to on the phone said that the first flight was supposed to come in at 10:30am the next day, so that I should call them at around 11:30am to see if
As much as I tried to let go of the fact that I didn’t have my bag, it was hard and I worried about it for much of the next day until I FINALLY got a call at 5pm on Thursday while Viv and I were at the Natural History Museum ( this is after many calls to the Southwest baggage office at La Guardia that were unreturned) that they had my bag and that I could pick it up whenever, since because I didn’t check my bag in, they can’t deliver it. Good thing Steph lives close to the airport.
GAH. So, with every incident, there is a lesson to be learned right?
sooooooo…..
I now put my carry-on luggage in the overhead bin directly across from the row that I sit in so that I can keep an eye on my carry-on luggage while everyone is pulling theirs out of the overhead bins.
I think I’ll probably put a brightly colored ribbon or piece of string or something to mark my bag so that people won’t mistaken it for theirs. BUT! For the record, the bag of the person who took my bag looked NOTHING like mine. Theirs had a brown handle while mine is completely black. It wasn’t even of similar proportions either.
Pictures to come soon!
….well ok, I am in bed, but not sleeping. I have to blog this because I’m flying Southwest tomorrow and this TV series is about customer service representatives for Southwest Airlines and the stuff that they have to deal with daily when it comes to customers.
The part that has touched me the most is in Season 1 episode 5 (for those of you who have Netflix, you can stream it) the customer service supervisor Mike, is so gracious and understanding about an old man who has Alzheimer’s and has defecated himself in his wheelchair. Him and his wife are headed back to New Mexico after visiting relatives. Mike has agreed to help the man’s wife change her husband and clean him up so that they can make their flight on time. She keeps apologizing and is tearing up from not only embarrassment but from having taken care of her husband like this for 6 years. Mike explains to her that she does not need to apologize and that he understands because his mother is also very ill and needs assistance and that he is more than happy to help her.
I get pretty upset when I hear customers throwing fits in the airport because it really doesn’t do very much good, and people are usually doing their best and things such as weather delays and such are out of their control. Everyone could really save a few years on their lives if we all cooled down just a little bit. I’ve really only had one flight where the flight crew was really snippy and rude. They were also the oldest flight crew ever…don’t worry, it was Delta.
Hope everything goes smoothly on my morning flight.
this time it’s for FUN! Yay! I decided to screw saving up vacation time and to just take one!
My friends Stephanie and Emily just moved to the East Coast and a few months ago Vivan and I were able to take advantage of a Southwest Airlines sale that they had going on. I got myself a flight from Oakland to NYC for $90 and flying back to Oakland from Philly for $90 as well, which is a gosh darn steal. OH, and Viv just informed me that we will have Wifi on the plane!
I’ll be in NYC for about three days, and Philly for two. Since I just returned from San Diego on business and work has been quite hectic, I haven’t been able to plan out too many things to do. Vivian is a total foodie, and I definitely don’t mind gorging on tasties, so we’ve decided that this trip is going to be a super eat fest. The one thing that I looked up that I am definitely going to eat is chicken and rice. I found a place on Yelp that is close to Stephanie’s placeand got 4.5 stars, so we will hit that up. $5 for a plate! CHEAP!
I could definitely use some more suggestions on where to go. Steph lives in Astoria, close to Queens I believe.
Two days after returning from the East Coast, I’ll be aboard another plane to Japan for work again. I definitely don’t mind traveling to Japan anymore since we are familiar with our surroundings now. My favorite clothing store, Uniqlo is in the Narita airport as well as at Meguro Station which is close to where we will be working….now if we could find some spare time that would be wonderful. Plus, Japan is great because I don’t think that I can ever get sick of Japanese food.
However, it also means another weekend spent WORKING 
I just booked a few flights to San Diego for me and my coworkers on Southwest at $29 a piece both ways. I had the website up and the flights were $39 and then 5 minutes later they became $29. Could be a steal if you’re looking to head down?
Virgin America is also having a sale on select flights at $29 for some flight.
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